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RECLASSIFY
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Irregular inflected form: reclassified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reclassify ... he / she / it reclassifies
Past simple: reclassified
Past participle: reclassified
-ing form: reclassifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classify anew, change the previous classification
Example:
The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "reclassify" is one way to...):
assort; class; classify; separate; sort; sort out (arrange or order by classes or categories)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
